Betrayed While Asleep, Afghan Police Die at Hands of Their Countrymen

Source: NY Times

By ROD NORDLAND

KABUL, Afghanistan — A wave of betrayal has left at least 17 Afghan policemen dead in the past 10 days — all killed in their sleep, at the hands of those close to them.

Early Thursday morning, an Afghan policeman unlocked the door of the check post where he was stationed in Oruzgan Province and let in his friends from the Taliban, who helped him attack his sleeping colleagues with knives and guns, eventually killing four and wounding eight.

On Sunday, a local police commander in a remote northern province, Jawzjan, shot to death, in their beds, five men under his command and fled to join the Taliban.

And on Dec. 18, a teenager, apparently being kept for sexual purposes by an Afghan border police commander in southern Kandahar Province, drugged the commander and the other 10 policemen at the post to put them to sleep, and then shot them all; eight died.

6. it's NYT--what else would be expected.. *nt

12. Seriously, they just kinda threw that in there like we wouldn't notice.

I guess they could just left the sex slavery out and Americans wouldn't be the wiser.

There was a 60 Frontline documentary about this a few years ago

A short while later, one of the Manning leaks outed the fact that US contractors were involved in the child sex trade with the foreknowledge and enablement of State Department personel. But all they talk about on the news is how much of a "betrayer" he was too.

If these are the "good guys" the US government supports, no wonder people get fed and join the "bad guys".

11. Umm its Pakistan a former English colony

A lot of people speak English there. They wrote the sign in English because they're obviously trying to reach Americans. The country doesn't murder them for it, the Taliban does. Malala got an outpouring of support from most of Pakistan and will probably be studying in England.

The drones don't even get the people they're designed to get half the time, maybe even less. The U.S. just acts as an intermediary assassination squad. Same thing with the night raids, where soldiers murdered innocent men in their beds next to their wives because they received a call from someone suspected to be Taliban and nothing more. If you're not prepared to send your own men to do the job right, don't do it at all. We're no better than the Taliban because of our drones.

And people like you on a Democratic website that are no better than a neocon thug.